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EnzephaloN

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Registered: 2024-02-29

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(Arch) Linux killing ThinkPad?

Hello

Since years I use Linux (esp. Arch) on my ThinkPads. My T470P is running perfectly with Arch and the T450s of my wife is running Debian perfectly.

This year I bought a ThinkPad P1 gen 4 for me and installed Arch on it.
It was running fine since summer. On vacation it died (freeze while turning off, after shutting down - no power-on anymore). I send it in and got new mainboard replaced by waranty.
The repaired one worked fine, but two keys were dead, so I send it in second time.
I got my ThinkPad back with new keyboard.
After doing some grub-installation it started and died in seconds, showing login-screen with square-mouse-cursor and not accepting more than one keyboard-press. Power-switch did not work and after using reset-switch, it was dead. No more power-on, no power-LED.
So I send it in third time, got a new mainboard and Windows 10 installed. It runs.

Before I install ArchLinux again, I would ask you all, if someone has ideas about dying ThinkPads 'cause Linux-OS. I think Lenovo will not replace mainboard another time.

It will be very nice, if some of you have informations about this.

Best regards
EnzephaloN

jl2

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From: 47° 18' N 8° 34' E

Registered: 2022-06-01

Posts: 392

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Re: (Arch) Linux killing ThinkPad?

https://github.com/tomsom/yoga-linux/issues/7

In short, this was a issue that bricked the SSD if it had to high write speeds. The windows driver didn't hit the speeds but some benchmarks and linux (especially installers) hit it.

EDIT: was only an issue for my laptop-type!

Last edited by jl2 (2024-09-11 16:14:53)

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